Area code plan will cost county more than $100,000

911 upgrade's price tag to top $100,000

3:16 AM,
May 14, 2014

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The plan to introduce a new telephone area code next year will require the Ross County 911 system to be upgraded at a cost of more than $100,000.

In December, the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio approved a plan to overlay a new area code, 220, into the existing 740 area code. The additional area code is being implemented because of a projection that the 740 area code will run out of phone numbers by the second quarter of 2015.

The plan means that all 10 digits - the area code and phone number - will have to be dialed starting March 21, 2015. The current 911 system in affected counties is not set up to ...